City Council Meets Deliberations On Sidewalks Artesian Well
City Aldermen convened in a monthly session with Walrath absent in Chicago. They ordered a contract for unfinished Hanson street sidewalks and discussed fire alarm bells, electric lighting on Sanborn street, and the artesian well project now hindered by pipe removal issues. Robbed music store case noted, and a critical New York Sun critique of the Populist party was reprinted.
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Stearns
Council
Walrath
Chicago
Hanson Street
Milwaukee Round House
Reierson
Sanborn Street
Artesian
Ley
New York Sun
The
Omaha World-Herald
Christ
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
People’s Party
Hector Waite
George F. Washburn
Massachusetts
People's Party
Chicago Exposition Costs and Crowd Reactions
The writer tours the new Chicago sites near the fair, notes high living costs and slow middle-class influx, and surveys financial woes. He reports low Sunday attendance, a shifted political stance on park opening, and critiques art in the Canada room as well as provocative French and German works. He observes temperance trends, crowd behavior, and the emotional impact of Foreclosure of the Mortgage.
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Chicago
Jane
Brazil
Ind
Englewood Station
Fairgrounds
Pineries
Fair Grounds
White City
Lincoln Park
Willy Nilly
Canada Room
Colored cook involved in Aberdeen burglary scare
Charley Warren, a University cook from Woonsocket, was briefly detained in Aberdeen after a burglary led police to suspect a colored man. Sheriff Haasze questioned Warren, who identified himself and was released within minutes. The incident followed a report from Constable Chesebro about a suspect arrested in Warner and bound over to the grand jury.
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Charley Warren
University
Aberdeen
Aberdeen News
Charley
Mr. Warren
A. S. Chesebro
Warner
Witte
McAllister
Chesebro
Sheriff Haasze
Andrew Larson
Milwaukee
Waarren
Haasze
West
Warren
Woonsocket
Castoria Advert Claims Through Ages
Fragmentary text appears to reference Castoria across ages from infancy to fifteen and motherhood. The snippet imitates an old advertisement style praising Castoria for children and babies, but lacks coherent context or names.
Smith Grocery Stock Slashed in Two-Week Sellout
A store owner announces the Smith Grocery Stock closeout offering deep cuts on pepper spices flour cider vinegar and more at the Old Grant Building on Main Street between First and Second. Prices include ground pepper 25c per lb and best extract half price with other goods heavily discounted.
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Grant Building
Main Street
First
Second Streets
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